How Has Technologhy Changed the Way Students Learn

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About 30 years ago, nobody had a personal computer. If you were to hand in schoolwork, you would have to hand write it or if you couldn't afford it, type it on a typewriter. Researching was painful because you would have to go to a library and try to find the right book. Or you would have to look into an encyclopaedia, which could quite possibly be out of date. So therefore you work could be incorrect.

Computers have come a long way since the pen and paper and typewriters. Nowadays we use them for all sorts of educational needs. We are able to type our work up nice a neatly, so it is presented well. We use it for research, and now we are able to use it for oral presentations, by using a PowerPoint display on a light-pro projector. This replaces the old and boring charts or overhead projectors or slides and of course the really boring "stand up for 3 minute speech." All of this has changed our education and made it more interesting and fun, but not too fun.

Although there are few problems that have affected students. Some of us students have become too independent on computer. Such as grammar and hand writing . These basic skills are lost because computers automatical

Probably the most popular way these days to research information would be to go onto the Internet. There are hundreds of millions of pages of information stored on the web, which I some areas are updated daily. For those who are new to the Internet, also known as the World Wide Web. The Internet is an interactive computer based network library connected by phone lines, with tones of information. In shorter terms, it is library the size of New York City jammed inside a network of computer that changes daily.

Although this come at a prince and usually around 20 to 70 dollars a month. Depending how much you use and how fast you want you connection to be. Although this price is well worth it. Although there is still the fact of plagiarism. Some people are just cut and pasting their assignment.

Another good thing is the interactive educational gaming. Which gives us a better understanding of how things work. Take for example, in my economic class. We are learning about the stock exchange. To give us a better understanding of how it works, we went to an online game where we play make believe stock market. We are given $50,000 to buy and sell on shares and we watch how our portfolio drops and falls over a 10 week period. The share prices are the same as on the real stock market and is updated every few hours. So it's as if we are really buying shares. This program gave us a really good idea on how the share market really works. It's different and kind of fun.

ly do these things for us. It also doesn't come at a cheap price. The average personal home computer costs around $

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